Carla gugino

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.